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is it ok to shower with cold water right after a work out????

jackiebodart
jackiebodart Posts: 17 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Can i shower with cold water right after work out???

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Sure?
  • ephiemarie
    ephiemarie Posts: 264 Member
    If that's your thing, by all means. There is some science that supports taking an ice bath after an endurance event, but if you like a cold shower, go for it.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Did you get some stretching in while muscles were warm? Sure.
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    Why wouldn't it be okay to do that?
  • geotrice
    geotrice Posts: 274 Member
    FOR GODSAKES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
  • fearlessleader104
    fearlessleader104 Posts: 723 Member
    Yes, you should shower after working out
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    LOL....is this the same person that asked about drinking water after eating?
  • Ameengyrl
    Ameengyrl Posts: 127 Member
    You absolutely MUST NOT shower with cold water. Only hot. If you want to use cold, it must be a bath. But no cold showers! It destroys your metabolism!
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    I've noticed no ill effects from it.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    You can, sure. After mowing a lawn I like a cold shower and a beer. Specifically, drinking the beer in the shower... you will be fine :D
  • BruceHedtke
    BruceHedtke Posts: 358 Member
    No! You'll get cramps and drown!
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    edited May 2015
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    I've noticed no ill effects from it.

    Dude...judging from your av you take no showers.
  • stephanieluvspb
    stephanieluvspb Posts: 997 Member
    Sure, and if spin and sing a song while showering, you'll lose 5 pounds.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    *spills beer* dadgummit. too many things to do at once :P
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
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  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    edited May 2015
    jackiebodart wrote: »
    Can i shower with cold water right after work out???
    No of course not you can only have a cold shower before a workout. It has to be a hot one afterward but you need to make sure you are facing North east.
  • BuckyArden33
    BuckyArden33 Posts: 146 Member
    hmmm :/
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    I have actually read before that a cold shower after a workout can shock the system or some crap, maybe that's where this is coming from. I do it now and then and I'm fine...
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    edited May 2015
    Cold is safer!


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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    geotrice wrote: »
    FOR GODSAKES NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

    Too late, already dead
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  • jackiebodart
    jackiebodart Posts: 17 Member
    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    LOL....is this the same person that asked about drinking water after eating?

    No!
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